The School of Sustainability, together with the Global Institute of Sustainability, provides innovative, interdisciplinary education and research opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, to better prepare them to identify and solve sustainability challenges.
The degree programs are flexible, interdisciplinary, problem-oriented programs where students explore the sustainability of human societies and the natural environment on which they depend.
> Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Sustainability
> Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Sustainability
The undergraduate programs will introduce students to the problems of sustainability taking a comparative approach. Students will learn about factors that determine the sustainability of human institutions, organizations, cultures, and technologies in different environments.
> Master of Arts (M.A.) in Sustainability
> Master of Science (M.S.) in Sustainability
> Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Sustainability
The graduate programs train students for academic, research, and professional roles. Graduates will be able to understand the dynamics of coupled social and environmental systems and will be able to organize collaborative teams to conduct research and provide adaptive solutions to specific sustainability problems.
Graduate students can also earn a Certificate in Sustainable Technology & Management (a joint certificate between the School of Sustainability, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and W.P. Carey School of Business).
> Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Technology and Management
The Certificate in Sustainable Technology & Management is an interdisciplinary program that helps managers, engineers, and organizations meet the business and engineering imperatives of sustainable development in a global economy.
Graduates will be able to:
Academic-degree programs in sustainability not only build on the skills generated by discipline-based study, but make it possible to address the linkages between people in their social, natural, and built environment. Students will work on real-world challenges using various approaches. For example, students can build their program of study around one or more sustainability challenges (or another sustainability challenge of interest to them). The spatial and temporal scale at which the student chooses to look at the challenge can vary. For example, water scarcity can be studied at a local scale all the way up to a global scale. In addition, the challenge can be analyzed from past, present, and future perspectives.